Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804 - Volume 1 - By Alexander Von Humboldt And Aime Bonpland.

































































































































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iron, which cannot be called oligiste iron, since M. Gay-Lussac's
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These Little Volcanic Caverns Were Lined With Specular Iron, Which Cannot Be Called Oligiste Iron, Since M. Gay-Lussac's Last

Experiments on the oxides of iron.) When melted matter moves on a very gentle slope, the great axis of the

Cavity formed by the elastic fluids is nearly horizontal, or parallel to the plane on which the movement of transition takes place. A similar disengagement of vapours, joined to the elastic force of the gases, which penetrate strata softened and raised up, appears sometimes to have given great extent to the caverns found in trachytes or trappean porphyries. These porphyritic caverns, in the Cordilleras of Quito and Peru, bear the Indian name of Machays.* (* Machay is a word of the Quichua language, commonly called by the Spaniards the Incas' language. Callancamachay means a cavern as large as a house, a cavern that serves as a tambo or caravansarai.) They are in general of little depth. They are lined with sulphur, and differ by the enormous size of their openings from those observed in volcanic tufas* in Italy, at Teneriffe, and in the Andes. (*Sometimes fire acts like water in carrying off masses, and thus the cavities may be caused by an igneous, though more frequently by an aqueous erosion or solution.) It is by connecting in the mind the primitive, secondary, and volcanic rocks, and distinguishing between the oxidated crust of the globe, and the interior nucleus, composed perhaps of metallic and inflammable substances, that we may account for the existence of grottoes everywhere.

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